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Nova Scotia – Houston presents bill to address Lyme Disease

Published on April 10, 2014 Today in the Legislature, Tim Houston, Progressive Conservative MLA for Pictou East, introduced a bill to develop a comprehensive Lyme Disease Strategy for Nova Scotia. “I am proud to be able to bring forward this long overdue legislation to address patients’ concerns respecting the diagnosis and treatment of Lyme Disease…

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Diversity of piroplasms detected in blood-fed and questing ticks from several states in the United States.

Shock BC, Moncayo A, Cohen S, Mitchell EA, Williamson PC, Lopez G, Garrison LE, Yabsley MJ. online before print 2014 Apr 4.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ttbdis.2014.01.003 Abstract Piroplasms in the genera Babesia, Theileria, and Cytauxzoon are tick-borne parasites that may be animal and human pathogens. Most piroplasms with known life cycles are transmitted by ixodid ticks; however, for many…

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Scientists discover unnamed disease carried by deer ticks

[Canlyme note : The notion or suggestion that Borrelia miyamotoi is a new disease, is at this point in time proposterous. It is Lyme Disease. This is as silly as saying that each winter season there is a new disease called the flu. The flu is the flu, caused by many strains. Lyme Disease is a disease…

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National Post : Child arthritis cases spike as Lyme disease pushes further into Canada

[CanLyme note: A comment that was in the print version of the National Post newspaper has been edited out of the online version, it followed this quote…. “The majority of children … never knew they were bitten by a tick. Arthritis was the very first presenting symptom of their Lyme disease,” said Dr. Elizabeth Stringer, a…

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Lyme Disease more prevalent than BC Govt is letting on

 A Kamloops couple whose daughters contracted Lyme disease says the BC Government and the medical community continue to downplay the relevance of the disease in the province. Niki and John Bone say they are shocked to learn other families struggle with finding the proper diagnosis.We recently featured the Hrychiw family whose two boys were forced…

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LymeDisease.org Publishes Largest Study of Chronic Lyme Disease Ever Conducted; Patients Suffer Poor Quality of Life and High Rates of Disability and Unemployment

Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) April 01, 2014 Chronic Lyme disease is associated with a poorer quality of life than most other chronic illnesses, according to a newly published comprehensive patient survey. Compared to the general population, patients with chronic Lyme disease have high disability and unemployment rates, are five times more likely to visit healthcare…

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[Canadian doctors gave up on him] India : Man revived from deep coma after 2 months

[How many more just are left to die in Canada? Not a great tourism advertisement for our country and it’s alleged great medical system] NEW DELHI: Doctors at a private hospital here have given a new lease of life to a man declared “near brain dead” by a hospital in Canada. Asok Debnath, an IT professional…

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Only 18% of Lyme Disease patients studied in Nova Scotia had a rash… not the 60-80% stated by Canadian governments, AMMI, and in Canadian medical curricula

Lyme Arthritis: an Emerging Clinical Problem in Nova Scotia, Canada Pier D. Glaude1, Adam M. Huber1, Timothy Mailman2, Suzanne Ramsey2, Bianca Lang2 and Elizabeth Stringer1 Article first published online: 27 MAR 2014 DOI: 10.1002/art.38498 Copyright © 2014 by the American College of Rheumatology Seventeen patients were identified; all patients were referred for evaluation of arthritis….

La maladie de Lyme en progression au Québec

SHERBROOKE — Premières victimes de la maladie de Lyme au Québec, les producteurs agricoles et forestiers ont la désagréable impression d’être mal compris par le corps médical. 28 mars 2014 par Pierre-Yvon Bégin   De guerre lasse, plusieurs ont trouvé aux États-Unis les médecins et la médication appropriés à leur condition. « On soigne les…

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MacLean’s magazine – The truth about Lyme disease

 Lyme disease can masquerade as MS, ALS, even dementia and its numbers are growing tenfold. So why is Canada lagging behind in treating and diagnosing it? by Anne Kingston  [March 2014] For decades, Gabriel Magnotta, the well-known Ontario wine-industry firebrand, went hunting with a group of friends. These expeditions took them into the wilds of…

Marlène Downey doit se faire soigner aux É.-U.

Actualité rurale | 4 mars 2014 par Pierre-Yvon Begin Productrice d’arbres de Noël avec son conjoint, Larry, dans les Cantons-de-l’Est, Marlène n’accepte pas le diagnostic. Heureusement, puisque deux médecins des États-Unis auront tôt fait de déceler chez elle la maladie de Lyme. Causée par une bactérie, cette zoonose est transmise à l’homme par un insecte minuscule,…